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Senior nurses warn that hospital staffing levels are unsafe

  • Penningtons Solicitors LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 14 2013

The Safe Staffing Alliance (SSA) has warned that NHS wards regularly have unsafe nursing staff levels. The SSA, which was formed last year and

Universities abroad experiment with no-fee licensing to drive biotech partnerships

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 16 2013

Universities in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom have reportedly embraced a 2010 Glasgow University initiative under which companies

Clinical negligence claims for NHS system failures

  • Anthony Gold Solicitors
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 16 2013

Three recent high-profile news stories are examples of how NHS system failures, not just substandard care by an individual health professional, may

Quarterly planning briefing

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 14 2013

The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (the Act) was given Royal Assent on 25 April 2013. It follows the Localism Act 2011 and the National Planning

Court fines landlord for showroom carbon monoxide poisoning

  • Penningtons Solicitors LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2013

Blackburn Magistrates Court has fined a commercial landlord £1,500 after two employees in a showroom suffered carbon monoxide poisoning from a

GP’s “reconstructed” evidential account preferred

  • 1 Chancery Lane
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 15 2013

In a judgment handed down last week the Court of Appeal upheld a decision in favour of a family doctor accused of negligence for failing to refer a

When is a dentist not a dentist? Tooth whitening and the Dentists Act 1984

  • 1 Chancery Lane
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 17 2013

The nation's passion for cosmetic enhancement continues apace. When I was a child we Brits were as perplexed by the American obsession with even

Hospitals reveal hundreds of preventable medical blunders

  • Ashton KCJ
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 13 2013

Hospital Trusts have admitted to 750 preventable mistakes over the past four years, which include foreign objects being left inside patients and

Caldicott 2 The Information Governance Review: The final chance to get it right?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 14 2013

Dame Fiona Caldicott is right when she observes confusion and a lack of clarity when it comes to sharing information - often to the detriment of

NHS England publishes interim CCG assurance framework

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 10 2013

NHS England has published its Interim CCG Assurance Framework (available from here). The framework is designed to help NHS England, patients and the